I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly. — Anais Nin Leader Copy Share Image
I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because… — Anais Nin Inspirational Copy Share Image
We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself. — Anais Nin Man Copy Share Image
“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.” — Anaïs Nin Dream Copy Share Image
They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to… — Anais Nin Faces Copy Share Image
I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often. — Anais Nin Different Copy Share Image
I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put… — Anais Nin Cheat Copy Share Image
Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty… — Anais Nin Fullness Copy Share Image
“And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to… — Anaïs Nin Self help Copy Share Image
I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from… — Anais Nin Block Copy Share Image
“I don't want you to taint that fragile coat of astonishing colors created by my illusions, which no painter has ever been… — Anaïs Nin Artist Copy Share Image
“Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to… — Anaïs Nin Books Copy Share Image
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am… — Anais Nin Absence Copy Share Image
It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And… — Anais Nin Barriers Copy Share Image
I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men… — Anais Nin Beautiful Copy Share Image
Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to… — Anais Nin Belts Copy Share Image
“The most haunting woman is the one we cannot find in the crowded café when we are looking for her, the one… — Anaïs Nin Haunting Copy Share Image
“Dear Collector: We hate you. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
“Her lack of confidence in life, in realization, in the fulfillment of her desires, in the outcome of a dream, in the… — Anaïs Nin Confidence Copy Share Image
“If only we could all escape from this house of incest, where we only love ourselves in the other, if only I… — Anaïs Nin Tunnel Copy Share Image
“I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires an effort I cannot… — Anais Nin Books Copy Share Image
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for… — Anais Nin Action Copy Share Image
“Like the Baron, Mathilde developed a formula for acting out life as a series of roles—that is, by saying to herself in… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
“The old concept of chronological, orderly, symmetrical development of character died when it was discovered that the unconscious motivations are entirely at… — Anaïs Nin Character Copy Share Image
“A writer, who was a celebrity in Paris, had entered her shop one day. He was not looking for a hat. He… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs. — Anais Nin Curtains Copy Share Image
I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing. — Anais Nin Beautiful Copy Share Image
We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds. — Anais Nin Kitchen Copy Share Image
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. — Anais Nin Becoming Copy Share Image
Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold. — Anais Nin Alchemy Copy Share Image
